Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 became a pandemic at the beginning of 2020. Turkey has seriously been affected with more than 2 million cases as 08.02.2021. Previous studies suggested that ambient particulate matter (PM) may carry the virus. The objective of this study was to investigate the SARS-CoV-2 RNA on ambient PMs collected from 13 sites including hospital gardens, urban and urban background locations in 10 cities in Turkey, between May 13 and June 14, 2020. Quantitative real time-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and three dimensional (3D)-digital PCR methods were applied to the collected 155 daily samples (Total Suspended Particulate (TSP), n=80; PM2.5, n=33; PM2.5-10, n=23; PM10, n=19; and 6 size segregated PM ((size fractions between PM0.49-0.95;PM0.95-1.5; PM1.5-3; PM3-7.2 and PM>7.2 µm and a back-up filter
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